Most of my life is pretty busy. When I have a moment where I have nothing to do, I try to enjoy it instead of wishing it away.

Having the time to do nothing is underappreciated.

Read the book Sapiens.

Being able to believe in fiction is what allows humanity to function.

I’d never heard of the monkey banana ladder experiment before. At the end of the article it said that that experiment has never actually been done. When searching further, it seems like this is an often cited hypothetical experiment. I found mention of a similar study that actually happened that allegedly had different results but the details seem to be behind a paywall.

I’ve not seen the wire, but now I’m afraid if I do it will make me sad.

I realized the dangers involved. That is why I never became a police officer myself.

… actually the reason is because I was too old by the time I had the idea to try, but realistically I had talked myself out of it before I knew that.

I have had the thought before that the police problem could be improved if decent human beings joined the force and tried to change it from the inside out. I think it could make a difference but I don’t think many people consider it because it feels like joining the wrong team.

This is true. Although, every once in a while I’ll convince the wife unit to go out and we both usually end the night with a sense of regret and a feeling that we both would have preferred to have just stayed home.

Apparently wiki identifies it as a “pointing stick”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick

…also, I find it amusing that the article does use the term clitmouse.

Mine.

I was in the hospital last month and the screen lock on the computer cart that they use to access your records and record information was showing advertisements.

It wasn’t even medical related. It was for a fast food chain.

When I was younger, we moved around a lot, and as side effect of that, we paid for a storage unit to hold less frequently used stuff. Around the time I started high school, we managed to buy a house, and moved everything from the storage unit into our home. In it there was a picnic basket that I had never seen before. I remember looking inside and finding a horrible smelling bag of “bread” which was actually a black liquid with lumps in it. There was also some individually wrapped cheese slices which visually speaking were indistinguishable from any I could buy in the store today.

Just to give a shout out to my boss when I worked as a mechanic, I’d like to say “get the fuckin’ torch. She’s hogged up tighter than a nuns cunt” and also a “she shakes like a sick whore shiting blood”. Lastly, I’ll add “fuck you shit whore fucking cunt”

Duane, you made amazing progress in the world of profanity and you were an amazing mentor.

Thank you.

“Nothing worth mentioning, you?”

I am certainly not one of the younger folks and had never seen that before. That is awesome, thank you for sharing.

The idea of a paperclip involved in jacking off made me cringe more than I would have expected.

In our house one of our common lazy dinner options is something that we simply refer to as gen-mex. It is a combination of a bunch of ingredients commonly associated with Mexican food assembled in whatever way you want. I think most commonly it resembles burritos or nachos, but it can certainly be modified to look like just about anything.

What I see here I would certainly classify as gen-mex.

Fuck yeah, I’d wear a cloak.

I know many sports games a lot of the adverts are imposed digitally before broadcast. I don’t watch a lot of sports, but I would certainly enjoy watching more if there were an option to disable the added adverts.

Similar to the nail polish suggestion, they also make clear spray paint.

What about phrasing it so the effort isn’t on you, but them?

“I’ve never really felt comfortable around [describe group]”. This way, the failure isn’t yours to get comfortable, but on them to mwake you comfortable.